Back from Barca! What an amazing trip - phenomenal hotels, ridiculous weather, potentially illegal quantities of Estrella Damm, beautiful sights and more squid than I ever thought I'd consume. Here's Part 1 of the photo evidence. Shops and hotels to follow! (Above: Columbus Monument)
Along the Passeig de Colom
Gaudi's famous and forever unfinished Sagrada Familia
Some of the selections at Bar Morrysoom, a fun little divey tapas joint into which we stumbled
The old customs house
A "tattooed" lady outside parliament
The Catalan Parliment
A greenhouse in the Parc de la Ciutadella
Yoohoo (kinda)
The pharmacies are ridiculously beautiful - and all completely art nouveau
London Bar, one of Hemingway's old haunts
Like a Corinthian column, but a tree! (Probably a wildly famous building)
A key feature to the cloisters? Animals! Swans galore (often violent lil buggers) at Barcelona Cathedral. (Another one had chickens).
Mucho muerte: skulls + crossbones were all over everything. This, along with loads of amazing crests are carved into the floor of the Barcelona Cathedral's cloisters.
8 comments:
Barcelona is the most fabulous city. I would live there if I spoke Spanish. It epitomizes modern Spain, an eclectic blend of tradition, history, and European sophistication.
I recently spent ten days in Paris and the trip, though beautiful, nearly killed me. Pray tell, is travel just for the youthful? From now on, I think I will just have to look at pictures of the worldly places.
Beautiful photographs! Jealous!
Glad you had fun though.
this post brought back a flood of memories from last october..how i love that city..so vibrant and full of life..though for a vegetarian it can get a bit hard to have variety in meals but i'm not complaining..loved all the architecture ..my favourite bit..the passion facade of the la sagrada familia..can't get it out of my system! great to have stumbled upon your unique blog..i'll be back for more! have a lovely day..you may also visit my blog and say hola!! xx meenal
Hollister great trip....that carved tree OMG!!
So wonderful to see exciting architecture!
xoxo
Karena
Art by Karena
great evidence, i always forget to photograph such details.
That green house at the Parc de Cuitadella (pictured) actually opens up into a weekend restaurant in the evenings in the summer, with a small band, candlelit tables and lovely food. I love that you took that photo, that park was a favorite haunt of mine back when I lived in Barca.
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